The woman who was once dubbed “Foxy Knoxy” was locked up for four years in an Italian jail for the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher when she first met a fellow inmate named Leny, whose name was changed for the story.

“I was cautiously friendly. We walked the perimeter together. She told me she was a lesbian and I told her I was straight,” Knox wrote in a piece for Broadly’s “Love Is a Hoax” series.

The two became “almost-friends,” Knox said, and she’d share her CDs with Leny and taught her how to play chess.

“When Leny got a janitorial job, she loitered outside my cell for a sip of espresso and a chat whenever she was on break,” Knox wrote. “Leny didn’t have anyone else, so she looked forward to our time together.”

But their relationship went sour one day, when Leny tried to hold Knox’s hand and seduce her.

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“As a prisoner, Leny should have understood that, but unlike me, Leny was serving a short stint, and didn’t feel as acutely as I did the loss of privacy, dignity, and autonomy,” Knox wrote. “A small town drug dealer, Leny didn’t know what it felt like to have her past, present, and future stolen — not like I did.”